Bowtech Bow Reviews

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Commander was initially released in 2007 and was the first bow to use the center-pivot technology. This new design reduced cam tilt and almost eliminated hand shock completely. The new design also improved accuracy at any shooting distance, at any draw length the bow is set at. Most archers... read full review

The Bottom Line:This is a very nice shooting bow. The shooter can easily dismiss the bow initially when viewing the short brace height and the short draw. This deception is quickly dispelled when the bow is pulled back and the arrow flies. Many shooters average in the neighborhood of 284 fps out of this bow. As the... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Allegiance is a high quality all around bow with an easily adjustable shooting style. Each Allegiance bow is available in smooth or fast modules to deliver extremely smooth draw cycle or faster speeds. In addition, the let-off can be adjusted easily from 65% to 80%. No bow press is required... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech Constitution is one of the mid-2000s' definitive long target and field bows - a 40-to-41-inch, 8 1/4-inch-brace platform built on the Binary Cam System and produced from 2005 through 2008. Its headline is that it does not follow the usual long-bow bargain: it is the forgiving, dead-still-on-aim... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech TomKat is the value package bow of the brand's Binary Cam era, and its trick was putting a flagship-grade cam under a budget riser and shipping it ready to hunt. For roughly $550 in the mid-2000s you got the complete rig - rest, sight, peep, quiver, sling and Hush Kit - around a compact 313/4-inch... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech Tribute is the mid-2000s hunting bow that tried to be fast and smooth at once, and it largely succeeded - a compact 31 1/2-inch bow rating 320 to 328 fps on its Speed module while shooting quiet and virtually shock-free through Vertical Force Technology and a built-in Hush Kit. Real hunting-weight... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Old Glory is BowTech's forgiving mid-2000s crossover - a long-riser, big-brace bow that shoots 3D and field on the weekend and hunts in the fall, built around the Equalizer Binary Cam and, in its 2006 form, a modular Speed/Smooth mod system that lets one bow lean either way. It is not a speed flagship:... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech Liberty VFT is a mid-2000s hunter that has aged into a genuinely appealing used and backup rig: a long 33-1/4-inch chassis, a quiet VFT limb shot, a smooth FreedomCam draw, let-off adjustable from 65 to 80 percent, and a target-color option that lets one bow hunt and shoot 3D, all sold for... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Justice VFT is a mid-2000s hunting bow that has aged into a genuinely useful budget and backup rig: a forgiving 8-inch brace, a quiet Vertical Force Technology shot, a lively low-300s speed, an adjustable let-off from 65 to 80 percent, and a light 3.75-pound mass, all sold for around $639... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech BlackKnight is the bow that built a company: BowTech's first product, the one it wheeled up to a chronograph in 2000 to announce itself, and the origin of the "fastest bows in the world" reputation that still follows the brand. Priced at $749 in its 2005 form, it delivered a 342-350 fps IBO... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Patriot matters because it is where Vertical Force Technology started, the platform that first turned Bowtech's cancel-the-recoil idea into a production hunting bow, and two decades on it still shoots soft in the hand for exactly that reason. From 2002 to 2005 it delivered IBO speeds from... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech Rascal is the rare mid-2000s BowTech that was never about speed - it is a featherweight, grow-with-me youth bow built to fit a child and keep fitting them, sold from 2002 through 2005 at a $279-to-$289 MSRP. Its strengths are the ones that matter for a first bow: about 2.2 pounds so a small... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech Mighty Mite is the small-but-mighty hunter of the brand's early-2000s catalog - a bow named after a premature baby who beat the odds, built to prove that a genuinely tiny bow could carry full 60-to-70-pound hunting power and a 310s-to-320s IBO speed. For roughly $600 in the mid-2000s you... read full review

The Bottom Line:The BowTech BlackHawk is one of the more likeable budget hunting bows of the early 2000s - the shortest, lightest single cam in BowTech's catalog of its day, carried at a $499 launch MSRP that put it hundreds below the flagships while still handing the shooter the continuously-tunable InfinityCam and... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Samson is a specialist, and it is honest about it. Produced from 2002 through 2004 in peak weights of 80, 90, and 100 pounds, it took Bowtech's fast Infinity Cam single-cam chassis - the same 325-333 fps IBO platform as the Extreme and Patriot - and fitted it with heavy-deflection VFT limbs... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Extreme is worth understanding on its own terms: a single-cam hunting bow, fast for its generation at 325-333 fps IBO, whose VFT name points to a limb technology for a smoother shot rather than to any cam or let-off spec. Across its life - the 2001-2002 Extreme Solo, the short-draw variant,... read full review

The Bottom Line:The Bowtech Pro 40 is a long-riser, single-cam target and field bow built from 2001 to 2004, named for the nearly 40-inch axle-to-axle length it launched with and refined by 2004 into a 37.5-inch, 4-pound-3-ounce FreedomCam bow with a tall 8.25-inch brace. Its value was never on the chronograph - a 292-300... read full review